Kenya Kenya God thank you for this special year were i can express myself , i am realy blessed you make oyr of me a better person in the hard time i fell your presence you always hold me with you mighty hand .to day i can understand that you choose me not in accordance with what i did but bacause of your grace . Thanks you for my sisters and brothers that I have now. Help me to understand them and them to understand me, so that we might receive all the blessings that you have already prepared for...
Participant Blogs
Global Challenge Missions Blog Archive: These are real blogs, from real people, bringing real change...
Uncertain future, certain God.
Our journey back to South Africa was undoubtedly paved by the hand of the Father. The moment we heard the seriousness of Corona, we as teams were called to meet together at a central place in Brazil - a house in the mountains near a very small town. ...
Led to Lead
I'm leading a team this year! In less than four years God has come and radically changed my life for the better. I believe that each and every single one of us are led to lead. In other words Christ leads us to lead others to him. What a privil...
Would you jump with me?
I remember standing at the edge of a cliff. Looking out at the big wide blue ocean. Looking down and seeing a beautiful scary blue unknown. My heart pounding in my chest like the sound of an epic climactic drum solo. Should I jump? Should i let go of...
Into the nations
Hello, my name is Johan Bruwer. I am on the brink of a 10-month journey where I will see and be a part of the establishment of God’s kingdom in the nations. I believe that the great commission is not an option to be considered, but it is a command to...
Discovering God
After finishing a blog on how God changed my mindset, about things I did not like doing and showing me other wise, I was not convinced that that was what I was supposed to share. After some amazing teachings this past few days and spending some...
"The land of smiles"
Thailand!! Wow it's an incredible place! Filled with beauties that only seeing in person can be understood! It definitely lives up to its phrase "the land of smiles" everyone here is just amazing. This country is special for me! We started in Bangkok...
Hidden World in The World
And just like that we were saying our good bye's and getting on a plane, watching South Africa disappear beneath us and bidding it farewell for the next 8 months. Hidden World is officially in the nations. It still seems unreal to us. 8 weeks ago we ...
Thanking food friends
An exciting update from the GLA eco campus construction site! We would like to give a shout out to the small businesses in Jeffrey's Bay- Beesland Slaghuis, Vyeboom Takeaway, RS Fruit and Veg (Croix Street) and Mengelmoes Kardoes We would like to th...
Break an Egg, Build a School!
The Global Challenge Expeditions Team of 2015 has created an initiative to increase financial support, called the Break an Egg, Build a School Challenge . This challenge is to create a video of you breaking an egg in a creative way and donate at www....
When I started with Global Challenge I said: I am giving up a year of my life to serve God and to work for Him. I am honestly sick and tired of that mindset! This is not "just one year". This is part of life. Giving up and over to God is not needed for just one year. It's not like: Wow okay I give up one year and then I can live the rest of my life in the way I have planned. NO! I don't just give one year. I lay down my whole life. It's not just one...
Short and Sweet for the time being.. Father God is doing incredible things here in South Africa, through Global, through a Fellowship filled with so much of His Love.. It's good.. More later whenever the time may come.. God is Love. 4:8
God told Abram: “Leave your country, your family, and your father’s home for a land that I will show you." Genesis 12:1 MSG Walking with God starts with a simple 'yes'. Everything else is provided in the journey. You just don't know when or how. Soon you start to learn that you walk by faith and not by sight... With the world's eyes we are blind, but now we truly see. Coming to Global Challenge was much like this. I heard the Lord speak and I chose to obey. What lies before me now, I do not...
The Lord brought me into the light of a lot of exposure during the course of this past year. And many times I stood in a valley of decision. I had the choice to let the exposure pass me by as an experience that looks cool in my instagram pictures, or I could grab it by the horns and ride it all the way into wisdom canyon. This is a pretty metaphor to describe the sometimes seemingly ugly process we’ve all been in, of struggling with questions and finding their answers. It’s usually a more painful and tormenting process. I...
Meeting pastor Bill was so amazing, just hearing his testimony speaking on radio telling people about our journey and what God has done for us in our lives. I will not forget Panama, it was a blessing to be there. All the things we did praying for people to be healed in prison and going out to the street to also pray and share the gospel to the people. Also parents visit a relaxing time also. But for me God has changed my personality because now I'm able to speak and to express myself and not to be shy or...
Sometimes in life things are not like expected, and the ways God work is confined deep within us within a certain way. Well God has no boundaries and no limits. The lessons He taught me was more valuable than having it all the easy way. God had to get me at a place where I could realize it's all about Him. Giving more of Him gives life. Giving Him is more valuable to people than giving something of myself. It's about looking past a blessing into Gods will. Because sometimes we are so focused on a blessing we need...
A certain individual once said :" It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one". I agree , but I also know that the inheritance and intimacy and love you receive , if you choose to follow Christ whole haertedley, is much better than enjoying the earthly pleasures and the "braai" in hell at the end of time. So I made the more logical decision a time back , and decided to follow Christ. And I'm loving it and Him every step of the way !!! The sheltered environment Global challenge creates , is excellent for...
A faith journey began last year 21 August when I woke up with the idea in my head to do a Global challenge year journey, I thought it was my own thoughts but as God led me that morning to read in Angus Bucan daily message in a book I never used I got some conformation threw the heading scripture that said Go out and make disciples (Matt 28:19) little did I know that God will stretch my faith so much, He is always faithful and His timing is perfect. Now about 6 months later I am of to 13...
So far my experience at Global has been incredible! I have met so many Amazing people who I am beginning to love, brothers and sisters in Christ. A few weeks ago during a Worship session I was pleading with the Lord for a new experience - some sort of spiritual gift. I cried out to Him to give me something, anything, a vision, a prophecy, but it never came, only a silent voice from the Lord, humbling me and telling me to get on my knees and surrender all to Him again. So I did and simply asked the Lord...
